I quit! I knew 2 elders who sold life insurance for a living and hit up all the jws they could. I asked them how they could sell life insurance to people who thought the end was coming in their life time and that they should rely on their god to take care of them. And then there was the elder that sold a pre-paid funeral package, to jws.
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16Change in WT Stance on Retirement? A qualified answer?
by blondie ini was reading the march 2025 wt today, and i notice this: "march 2025 p. 29 jehovah’s hand is not too short p.29-31 (retirement, but qualified statement) (notice , it is not wrong, but, in the end we must rely on their god.
retirement is alluded to as "making the quest for material things the focus of our life.
" are we confident that their god will provide (why have retirement then?
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Remember Hour Quotas?
by blondie inhour quotas timeline.
back in the old days long before 1952.
“after staying in our ‘home’ for two days we decided that if we were going to meet our quota of 140 hours for the month.
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blondie
Thanks St. George for taking us down memory lane. I remember all that. Like an Accounting Department.
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Remember Hour Quotas?
by blondie inhour quotas timeline.
back in the old days long before 1952.
“after staying in our ‘home’ for two days we decided that if we were going to meet our quota of 140 hours for the month.
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blondie
I remember something similar to that, when regular pioneers were not making their hours, it was pointed out to them if they put in 4 hours a day, that would be 120 hours, so that should be able to meet the monthly quota of 100 hours at that time. They may have assumed that people only worked 3-4 hours day to "support" themselves. Said by elders who hardly made 10 hours a month.
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WT AUGUST 2025: NEW LIGHT ON HAILSTONE MESSAGE : IS IT BIBLICAL OR JUST CONVENIENT?
by raymond frantz inhttps://youtu.be/n_fttvylm-m?si=l44406ohysubkajr.
so today we are considering, the watchtower's new take on the "hailstone message", and if you don't know what that is , they used to believe that according to revelation 16:21 they would be preaching a hard hitting message during the time of the end.
now, let's read the verse first from the new world translation: "then great hailstones, each about the weight of a talent, fell from heaven on the people, and the people blasphemed god because of the plague of hail, for the plague was unusually great" now this is their new understanding as it appears from the 3rd paragraph from their new watchtower study edition for august 2025 and their article:when will the preaching work end, has this to say: "our clarified understanding of matthew 24:14 also adjusts our understanding of the hailstonelike message foretold at revelation 16:21. further examination has revealed that the two scriptures complement each other.
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blondie
While "schadenfreude" is often used directly in English, it's technically a German word. The closest English equivalent would be "pleasure in another's misfortune" or "malicious glee"
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Reddit thread on convention video urging cutting off contact with Faders
by LongHairGal ini just read this.
don’t know if anybody here has seen the video.. the intended result of this is to obviously scare ‘faders’ out of the shadows.
now, they are being threatened with loss of association with their loved ones and friends.
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blondie
I don't understand that the WTS is encouraging jws to make contact with df'd relatives and then telling to end contact with those who have just stopped attending and/or participating, but not saying things against the WTS and are leading a life that they could be df'd.
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I need this stuff ...
by vienne ini'm trying to gather research material for a chapter in uncle b's third volume of separate identity.
here's the list.
i hope someone here can help.. a. s. herr: a letter to major whittle from the berean bible class of tiffin, ohio, 1898.. horace randle: future probation, 1901. a. b. dabney: questions answering questions, 1909. william crawford: the three great covenants of scripture, 1909. margaret russell land: the wonderful story of god’s love, 1909. e. h. sutton: after the war, 1909.
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blondie
I checked but couldn't find anything.
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Not on JW.com. Hebrides Islanders finally get refreshment! JW Kingdom Hall is turned into a juice bar!
by Balaamsass2 inplans to turn former jehovah's witness meeting hall into juice bar lodged.
the upper floor space of the former meeting hall in stornoway would be transformed into a cafe under the proposals.. plans to convert a former jehovah’s witness meeting hall to a juice bar and cafe in stornoway are among recent planning applications made to comhairle nan eilean siar.. the application would change the use of the former jehovah’s witnesses meeting hall at 30 church street into a juice bar and cafe.. the proposal would see the upper floor space of the former meeting hall being converted to designs by dbm design and engineering for the applicant, joanna morrison.
details of the proposals can be found on comhairle nan eilean siar’s online planning portal, with a deadline for comments on monday june 2.. meanwhile plans for a new house to be built at 3a horgabost, isle of harris, have been submitted to the comhairle by local resident, johnathon mackay.
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blondie
Hahaha
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That famous 117 Adams St address
by BONEZZ in...is now owned by etsy.
just happened across this.
(maybe you all knew it but it was newz to me) finally made it to 1000 posts...whew..
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blondie
Wasn't that 10 years ago?
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Remember Hour Quotas?
by blondie inhour quotas timeline.
back in the old days long before 1952.
“after staying in our ‘home’ for two days we decided that if we were going to meet our quota of 140 hours for the month.
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blondie
The Dumore Corporation or
the Wesayso Corporation
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WT AUGUST 2025: NEW LIGHT ON HAILSTONE MESSAGE : IS IT BIBLICAL OR JUST CONVENIENT?
by raymond frantz inhttps://youtu.be/n_fttvylm-m?si=l44406ohysubkajr.
so today we are considering, the watchtower's new take on the "hailstone message", and if you don't know what that is , they used to believe that according to revelation 16:21 they would be preaching a hard hitting message during the time of the end.
now, let's read the verse first from the new world translation: "then great hailstones, each about the weight of a talent, fell from heaven on the people, and the people blasphemed god because of the plague of hail, for the plague was unusually great" now this is their new understanding as it appears from the 3rd paragraph from their new watchtower study edition for august 2025 and their article:when will the preaching work end, has this to say: "our clarified understanding of matthew 24:14 also adjusts our understanding of the hailstonelike message foretold at revelation 16:21. further examination has revealed that the two scriptures complement each other.
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Not these people? :) https://www.history.com/articles/heavens-gate-mass-suicide“What Nettles and Applewhite were offering was an E.T. version of what other Christians would call the Rapture,” says Zeller, adding that the idea of mixing UFOs with religion wasn’t new; it was already popularized by the 1968 best-seller Chariots of the Gods. Specifically, Nettles and Applewhite came to believe they were the “Two Witnesses” prophesied in Revelation 11 who would testify and teach on Earth before the Final Judgment. According to the prophecy, the Two Witnesses would be killed and then resurrected."